joesimons.bsky.social
Using computers to better understand people. Social psychologist. Bristol to Singapore via Oxford and UNC.
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The slurpsfräge
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Could well be
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I think Dylan Moran could give it a good go too
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Just going to leave this here
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Not so much a physical resemblance, but I always imagine Leibniz as having the same energy as Jack Black
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Although to be honest more based on this caricature than actual photos
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Rik Mayall as Max Stirner #PhilosophyBiopics
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Rambo: First Principles
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Would love to discoer this is some kind of state-sponsored soft power campaign
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Seems like every second video on my FB is someone preparing enough mala tang for, like, several dozen people. I am absolutely NOT complaining about this, to be clear.
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Sexy murder satyrs
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Can only imagine this with them all stacked up and wearing a trenchcoat
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"Oh they won't do that twice in a row" I confidently thought, sitting down to listen while eating breakfast #TheArchers
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Logical positivist (derogatory)
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Antiparasitic medication
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I like that a lotl
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Khornap cares not from whence the verification flows
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A favourite was an opera singer trying to find a flattering way to explain that a key component of Nightwish's sound is that their vocalist has an enormous mouth
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"Why thank you, classical vocalists, prior to this I had not considered the role of Bruce Dickinson's stance in enabling him to maintain extended breath control. However I won't ever be able to watch an Iron Maiden video again without noticing this"
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Reaction videos of musicians listening to things waaaay outside their chosen genre. Always interesting to see what they pick up on.
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You can quickly give people new frames by tapping into things they might have more positive stereotypes about. "You know how tech startups raise millions of dollars to get going? So big science labs - the ones that make the medicine! - are so efficient they run on less than half of that!"
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Would very much like to read an informed historical take on who in today's ecosystem is the closest to post-war unobjectionable moderate common sense. Have a vague sense it would be Sanders / Corbyn.
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Yeah this jumped out a mile at me as well
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There are lots of great things about dogs, but this is one of my favourites
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Same vibes as when a dog has done some big barking and has to warm down with a few grumpy little semi-barks, like they are muttering to themselves
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"Don't read this in a Don van Vliet voice" challenge level: nigh-impossible
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Ancient Greeks: excuse me, you are asking if this mask is <what?!!!>
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Given it was titled "The grad student who never said no", I recall the general reaction at the time being "this is shocking - but not in the way you think!"
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"My President could beat up your President"
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Warhammer 40k's signature grimdark "a thousand souls a day must die to keep the corpse Emperor alive" sounds way less impressive post-covid
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It's remarkable how reading the news stories about DOGE feels like reading coverage of the internal changes at Twitter when he took over
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.... except Mick, that is #TheArchers
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Eating a meal? A succulent rustic meal? #TheArchers
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Having an extreme response option as the modal response is... unusual, right?
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I still remember the moment of clarity when the practical value of intent-to-treat analyses clicked for me
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They are going to have to do some balance patching to make the Creator viable; right now, the Jester is a whopping 20+ points higher in <creativity> for just a 5 point drop in Wisdom. Frankly embarrassing to be outclassed on your prime stat like that.
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That's just going off the index, though. We'll have to wait for the Codices to really make a call on it.
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Blacksmithing makes the list, though. Salamanders and Dawi keep on winning.
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Linda would NEVER! Her interest in Lawrence is purely Machiavellian #TheArchers
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A workout app but it's just a recording of Patrick Stewart yelling Shakespearean insults at the user